Name "Goncourt" received the most prestigious literary prize France. The prize was named after the Goncourt brothers, naturalist writers. (novel "Germinie Lacerte", 1865). Goncourt Prize – just like Booker – notes best work in the genre of the novel.
The youngest of the brothers Edmond Louis Antoine bequeathed all his fortune Academy of Literature who became famous Goncourt Academy who founded the award of the same name.
The Goncourt Prize is awarded based on the results of voting by the members of the Goncourt Academy. Voting takes place in paris- at the restaurant Drouant". The award itself is given annually- beginning since 1903.
Unlike Booker, the Prix Goncourt in material terms- symbolic (10 euros), but at the same time, the award makes the work prestigious and significantly increases its sales.
The winner is chosen 10 most famous French writers, representing the Académie Goncourt. IN different time The Goncourt Academy was represented by A. Daudet, J. Renard, Roni Sr., F. Eria, L. Aragon, E. Bazin etc. Each writer has 1 vote, which can only be given for one book, although the decisive vote is the vote President of the Academy(he has 2 votes).
The statutes of the Prix Goncourt state that The prize can be awarded to an author only once in a lifetime. The writer is an exception. R. Gary who received his first prize in 1956 for a novel "Roots of Heaven" and the second in 1988 for a novel "Whole life ahead". The second prize was awarded to an author who wrote under a pseudonym "Emile Azhar". Gary-Azhar's hoax was revealed only after he was awarded the prize.
Laureate of the Prix Goncourt 2011 year became A. Jenny who received an award for his book "The French Art of War". In addition to Jenny, the prize was claimed by S. Shalandon("Return to Killybegs") C. Martinez("Murmyur's Domain") and L. Truillot (« beautiful love human").
The Goncourt Prize met many celebrities along the way. Yes, in 1916. the laureate was A. Barbusse ("Fire"), V 1919 - M. Proust ("Under the shadow of girls in bloom"), V 1948 G. - M. Druon ("Famous Families"), V 1954 – S. de Beauvoir ("Tangerines").
IN 1995 Prix Goncourt received native of Russia A. Makin for the novel "French Testament". The third novel brought its creator not only the Goncourt Prize, but also the Medici Prize, which was originally focused on the avant-garde "new" novel. It was the "French Testament" that gave French citizenship to the grandson of a French emigrant. The novel has been translated into 35 languages, including in Russian, which brought fame to A. Makin.
IN 2010 the world-famous French 
Antsuzian writer M. Ulbeck (novel "Map and Territory").
The Goncourt Prize is famous for its mishaps. And the case with Gary-Azhar is not an isolated one. Yes, in 1916 the winners were two writers - A. Barbusse and A. Bertrand.
IN 1987 the award was “expanded”: the Goncourt Academy, together with the Ministry of Education and the FNAC company, established a separate award for lyceum students - Goncourt Prize for lyceum students.
TASS-DOSIER. On November 6, 2017, the winner of the Prix Goncourt will be announced in Paris. She is awarded for best novel written in French. The editors of TASS-DOSIER have prepared reference material, containing basic information about this award.
The Goncourt Prize (fr. Prix Goncourt) is the most famous of all literary awards in France. It bears the name of the Goncourt brothers - Edmond Louis Antoine (1822-1896) and Jules Alfred Huot (1830-1870), who gained fame as novelists, memoirists, historians and literary critics. According to the will of Edmond Louis Antoine, drawn up in 1896, the Goncourt literary society, to whom the state of the brothers passed. It later became known as the Académie Goncourt.
Award procedure
Since 1903, the academy has awarded annually a prize for "creative discovery in prose" among novels published in French in the current year. In September, ten of its members (at various times the academy included famous writers and writers Leon Daudet, Jules Renard, Herve Bazin, Louis Aragon, etc.) hold a meeting, the results of which announce the first selection list of 15 applicants. Subsequently, two more meetings are organized, following which the number of nominees is reduced to four. In early November, the final voting of the members of the academy takes place. Each academician has one vote. In case of equality of votes, the winner is the work that was preferred by the President of the Academy. Since 2014, this post has been occupied by journalist and writer Bernard Pivot.
Following tradition, the announcement of the laureate takes place during a gala dinner at the Drouant restaurant in Paris. Academics vote by writing the name of the nominee on their copy of the menu.
At the beginning of the last century, the monetary part of the Goncourt Prize was 5 thousand francs - a fairly significant amount for those times. Today, its size is symbolic (€10), but the award significantly increases the sales of the winning novel and contributes to the growth of the author's popularity.
Laureates
As a rule, the award is given to young and little-known authors for one of their first novels (initially it was assumed that the fee was awarded to the winner so that he had the opportunity to publish other works). However, well-known writers such as Henri Barbusse (1916), Marcel Proust (1919), Maurice Druon (1948), Simone de Beauvoir (1954) also became laureates. According to the charter, the prize can be awarded to the author once. Only Romain Gary (real name Roman Katsev) received it twice: in 1956 for the novel The Roots of Heaven and in 1975 for the novel All Life Ahead, which he wrote under the pseudonym Emil Azhar (which became known after the death of the writer) .
In 1995, the Goncourt Prize was awarded to the writer Andrey Makin, a French teacher from Krasnoyarsk, who moved to France in 1987. He received this award for his novel The French Testament, in which the boy Alyosha, who lives in Russia, recreates in his fantasies the image of France at the beginning of the 20th century, according to the memoirs of an emigrant grandmother. The work is considered partly autobiographical, to date it has been translated into more than 35 languages.
In 2016, Leila Slimani, a writer and journalist of French-Moroccan descent, won the prize for her novel The Gentle Song (Chanson douce). A total of 114 awards have been presented since 1903.
Other awards of the Goncourt Academy
Along with the prize for the novel, the Académie Goncourt gives awards to authors of other genres:
For the best novel (since 1974; since 2001, together with the municipality of Strasbourg; the laureate is announced in September in Strasbourg);
- behind the best biography(since 1980; jointly with the municipality of Nancy; in September in Nancy);
- for the best poetic work(since 1985, established by will Goncourt Laureate Henrien Bertrand; at the beginning of the year at the Drouant restaurant);
- for the best first novel (since 2009; together with the municipality of Paris; in the spring in Paris).
- Goncourt Prize for lyceum students (since 1988; in November in Rennes)
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